Quote (thesnipa @ Jul 25 2022 10:38am)

it was written by JRRT, it was however not compiled, edited, or published while he was alive. It is true however some of the chapters were very well complete, others simple in draft form and had to be edited heavily, so no hard objection from me.

i just laugh when i read people twitter rage over black skinned dwarves because they're big movie fans but never read any of the Silmarillion. i personally read it once and it was extremely boring, these days i prefer youtube 20-30 min breakdowns of the stories as they're more engaging.

Quote (Ghot @ Jul 25 2022 11:35am)

I went a bit further off the deep end with Lord of the Rings... this is about 1/2 way to the final copy of the map I sold for $500...
I drew it ofc...

https://i.imgur.com/ACbRZWy.jpg

Quote (IgoSoHard @ Jul 25 2022 04:24pm)

I’m a huge LotR fan & I’ve read the Silmarillion twice. The first time I skipped about 40% of it, & the 2nd time I skipped over like 20% haha. I agree a lot of it is fairly boring & tough to read, especially since most of the time it’s not told in the traditional story format. I thought some of it was pretty freakin dope though haha. Like the ‘War of Wrath’ when it was army of Gandalfs & the Valar versus millions of orcs, & a bunch of Balrogs & later dragons. Or when the high elf king fights Sauron’s master, Morgoth, one of the coolest lines in the whole book if you have the context.

“ Thus he came alone to Angband's gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth to single combat. And Morgoth came


That’s actually pretty sick man

Quote (IgoSoHard @ Jul 25 2022 03:24pm)

I’m a huge LotR fan & I’ve read the Silmarillion twice. The first time I skipped about 40% of it, & the 2nd time I skipped over like 20% haha. I agree a lot of it is fairly boring & tough to read, especially since most of the time it’s not told in the traditional story format. I thought some of it was pretty freakin dope though haha. Like the ‘War of Wrath’ when it was army of Gandalfs & the Valar versus millions of orcs, & a bunch of Balrogs & later dragons. Or when the high elf king fights Sauron’s master, Morgoth, one of the coolest lines in the whole book if you have the context.

“ Thus he came alone to Angband's gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth to single combat. And Morgoth came


That’s actually pretty sick man

Quote (MxVivianWulf @ Jul 25 2022 02:44pm)

So I think I get it now. Wokism is when trans people exist, when black people are in TV shows and has something to do with the Frankfurt School and Cultural Bolshevism.

Interesting.

Just wondering - who gives a fuck? Kinda seems like "wokism" isn't really worth worrying about if it's just that black people are in TV shows and trans people exist.

Quote (KeeperHalidom @ Jul 25 2022 03:49pm)

I would say it's more about if you can genuinely think to yourself "wow if white people as a whole did something like that it would catch backlash" then you are on the right track to understanding the term woke or wokism.

Quote (Ghot @ Jul 25 2022 09:35am)

I went a bit further off the deep end with Lord of the Rings... this is about 1/2 way to the final copy of the map I sold for $500...
I drew it ofc...

https://i.imgur.com/ACbRZWy.jpg

Quote (pwb3 @ Jul 25 2022 05:35pm)

Wow that’s pretty impressive. Nice work.

Quote (phoenixfire82 @ 26 Jul 2022 04:41)

trans is in the same basket as gay or lesbian for me at this point: live and let live. i don't give two shits if a biological male wants to cut off his junk and don a pink skirt and run around as a pretty princess.

i take issue when a) i'm required to be in on the gig b) they're actively killing women's sports and c) advocating for children to make permanent life altering decisions

i can mostly ignore b and c, they are problematic, but not really my fight. if female athletes are ok competing with biological males then cool, good luck with that. if not, they gotta sack up and come out and say so, then i'll join the fight with them. if parents (likely afflicted by some form of munchausen by proxy) want to use their young children in order to gain attention in their woke friend circles by affirming their 7 year old's gender and getting them a sex change then cool. sorry kid, hope you still feel the same as an adult. if not, rest easy, at least your mum was super virtuous.

so that leaves a which directly affects me. if a trans person was earnest and genuinely wanted me to refer to them as something other than their biological sex, and it didn't feel like some kind of power move, then i probably would. if the govt tries to compel me to they can go pound sand.

e: dumbass emojis. whatever